'There's No Business Like Show Business': Using Multimedia Materials to Teach Entertainment Law

17 Pages Posted: 12 Feb 2010

Date Written: February, 11 2010

Abstract

Entertainment law, perhaps more than any other subject of law, lends itself well to use of multimedia materials, including DVD clips, Court TV segments, audio music clips, and the Internet. Multimedia materials help to vividly illustrate both how disputes arise and how to avoid them. Very often, multimedia materials themselves are the dispositive evidence in a copyright, trademark, or right-of-publicity dispute involving a hit song, motion picture, or television program. Such materials can shed valuable light on the doctrines underlying entertainment law, as well as on the practical, real-world aspects of entertainment industry workings.

This Essay sets forth the author's approach to teaching entertainment law, using multimedia materials to complement traditional case law approaches. Entertainment law encompasses a wide array of subject areas, but this Essay concentrates on intellectual property. Part I describes the author's methodology in teaching the course, especially the focus on clearance, litigation, and transactions. Parts II, III, IV, and V examine how multimedia materials can illuminate the law of ideas and issues surrounding copyright, right of publicity, and trademark.

Keywords: teaching methodology, legal education, multimedia teaching methods, multimedia materials, entertainment law, intellectual property, copyright, trademark, right of publicity

JEL Classification: K10

Suggested Citation

Greene, Kevin J., 'There's No Business Like Show Business': Using Multimedia Materials to Teach Entertainment Law (February, 11 2010). St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 52, No. 3, p. 765, 2008, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 1551569, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1551569

Kevin J. Greene (Contact Author)

Southwwstern Law School ( email )

3050 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90010
United States
619-255-4036 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://www.kevinjgreene.com

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